From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wu Fengguang Subject: [PATCH 0/5] writeback livelock fixes v2 Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:35:00 +0800 Message-ID: <20101110023500.404859581@intel.com> Cc: Jan Kara , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Johannes Weiner To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:45736 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751552Ab0KJCoy (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2010 21:44:54 -0500 cc: Christoph Hellwig , Jan Engelhardt Cc: Wu Fengguang , LKML Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Andrew, Here are the writeback livelock fixes (patch 3, 4) from Jan Kara. changes from v1: - collect the various changelog and comment changes from email discussions [PATCH 1/5] writeback: integrated background writeback work [PATCH 2/5] writeback: trace wakeup event for background writeback [PATCH 3/5] writeback: stop background/kupdate works from livelocking other works [PATCH 4/5] writeback: avoid livelocking WB_SYNC_ALL writeback [PATCH 5/5] writeback: check skipped pages on WB_SYNC_ALL fs/fs-writeback.c | 105 +++++++++++++++++++++++------ include/trace/events/writeback.h | 1 2 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) Thanks, Fengguang